Award-Winning Employee Performance Management with HR Software

LONDON, ENGLAND, October 05, 2010 (Press-News.org) Employee performance management software, also sometimes known as employee development and personnel development, allows managers and employees to identify and monitor behaviours, objectives, competencies and skill gaps, resulting in individualised employee personal development plans that can help dramatically improve performance, and in turn will align the goals and priorities of employees and managers with those of the business, thus creating a much more focused, successful and profitable organisation.

It is well known that by developing the skills and performance of both managers and employees within a business is crucial to its growth, stability and success. The hard thing is just how do you do that effectively and objectively, based on fact not just feeling. The answer is by implementing employee performance management software, designed to replace any incumbent paper-based systems. These systems allow both parties (employee and manager) to objectively set up and record the skill requirements of the job or post and the current levels of skill and knowledge of the employee, to help easily identify any gaps and to put in place a plan of training and development to help satisfy any performance gaps. This also enables HR and senior management to have a birds eye view or company wide performance dashboard report of the whole company or specific areas.

By utilising the software's simple and intuitive forms, will dramatically reduce the time and money spent conducting and recording employee appraisals and at the same time, will help bring into line the goals and priorities with those of the business. Performance software will generate automatic reviews, and progress alerts, these help to provide both managers and employees with follow-up actions and activities to ensure that they are able to effectively build, monitor and implement an active personal development plan.

Web-based performance solutions often prove to be the best systems to implement, as these systems can be set up easily and quickly across multiple sites and geographies and designed to be completely intuitive and used with only a few hours of training. Most web on-line systems are subscription based with low cost monthly payments and no additional hardware is required as they will simply use your existing network and Internet connections.

So, if you want your employees and managers to release their potential and drive greater business success through HR software, look to implement an employee performance management system as soon as possible. You can read more about what is offered by Octopus on this subject here: http://www.octopus-hr.co.uk/products/octopus-perform.asp.

About Octopus HR (www.octopus-hr.co.uk):

Octopus is the company that's pioneered the new way of managing HR, by making it a simple, collaborative, affordable, and pleasurable online process. Octopus award-winning HR solution suite includes: HR, Recruitment, Performance, Time, Expense and Payroll.

Octopus is a privately owned company, based in the United Kingdom with an ability to deliver for clients based anywhere in the world. Their core team have worked for some of the world's largest and most innovative software companies in Europe and the US. Their leadership team is made up of a group of industry leaders in HR services, financial consulting and technology with extensive experience working in the SME and corporate business sectors.

Octopus are totally focused on providing industry-leading human resource technology solutions to their clients. What differentiates them in the software world is that they only care about one thing 'customer satisfaction'. Consequently, they have amazingly satisfied customers - and by customers they mean HR managers, FD's, employees, line managers, new starters, payroll administrators, CEOs, you name it.

They're transforming the way HR is managed, through real online empowerment. Their purpose-built software - delivered as an online service via the web, lets all managers and employees carry out their important HR management and reporting tasks easily, online. Plus, by delivering truly exceptional customer service, they not only make HR tasks faster, simpler and more effective, but also help the HR department build stronger relationships with their customers.

If ever there was a people business, this is it. Octopus are only focused on providing better HR solutions, so they're passionate about what they do, and about the people they work with and for.

Contacts:
Chris Beaumont, Octopus
chris.b@octopus-hr.co.uk
+44(0)1628 642090

Geoff Burch, Octopus
geoff.b@octopus-hr.co.uk
+44(0)845 130 4138